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Freshwater Quality - key fact 1

SOER 2010 Key fact (Deprecated) Published 28 Nov 2010

Topics: Water and marine environment Agriculture

Despite improvements in some regions, diffuse pollution from agriculture remains a major cause of the poor water quality currently observed in parts of Europe. Agriculture contributes 50-80 % of the total nitrogen load observed in Europe’s freshwater, with point discharges, including from wastewater treatment plants, providing much of the remainder.

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